By Melanie Nathan, August 13, 2026. There is a tendency to report Africa's expanding anti-LGBTQ laws one country at a time. Uganda passes a brutal law. Ghana advances another. Senegal increases its penalties. Burkina Faso criminalizes same-sex relations. Niger follows. Mali follows. Each becomes a headline for a day or two. Then the world moves on. I cannot look at these developments that way. For years, my work through African Human Rights Coalition and as a country-conditio